The Republican journal., 1887-01-06
Soldier and Senator.

| loses one of its best and bravest soldiers and
the republican party one of its strongest pillars.
He was one of those tough, plucky and com
bative men, worthy of the great Western
State in which he was born and bred. lie
| achieved high rank, beginning he did at the
very bottom rung of the ladder, fighting his
| upward way with sturdy courage and indom-
liable will. He had the ambition, too, to reach
the loftcst position in the gift of his country
men, and had not death cut him off SO suddenly
and Unexpectedly he might, with his name at
the head of the Presidential ticket, have rallied
| the republican party to a notable victory in
| 1888. The career of John A. Logan could only
have been possible in America. lie had all the
traits of the typical Western mana founda-
tion of true grit with superstructure of
caution and vigilance, a great and generous
heart and keen insight into human nature.
Whatever he had to do he focused all his in
tense energy upon. whether it was hewing a
| passage through the bristIing ranks Of the
enemy or fighting his way to Congress over
| the bodies of defeated political foes.
The father of General Logan was an Irish
man of the da>hng. dare devil kind. who found
Ireland too small for him. He sighed for a
larger sphere and found it in the wilderness of
| Illinois, lie was Il physician by profession,
and was also, like most of his countrymen, a
capital judge of a horse. So by practising
medicine Oh the frontier, and by an occasional
| horse trade, John Logan-for that was his
name-malla@ed to make | 9TH "nas meet. He
came to this country in IS22 or thereabouts,
and in few months after he married to Il
pretty brunette of Tennessee whose name was
| Elizabeth Jenkins.
EARLY DAYS.
1t was on the 9th day of February. 1926 that
Jnhh 4 tl,.\. n..r | wing hnr ia Inhn n
| Logan and his wife, Elizabeth. This was the
| approximate date, any how though the subject
of this sketch kept the day Of his birth great
secret. His boyhood was passed in the rough
| experiences of an ear Y settlement. He got
little or no schooling, for Murphysboro, in
| Jackson county, was a long way removed from
| civilization, and his father had not enough
money to send the boy from home to be educat
ed. Accordingly he learned to till the land, for
the family had Il few acres in cultivation, and
| what with chOpplng wood and the usual farm
chores he found his time pretty well occupied.
Young Logan took kindly to horseback riding,
| and he was never so happy when he was i'll
trusted with a BAG Of corn to take to the mill
| some fifteen miles away, and with his burden
strapped behind his saddle his horse would
make excellent time. He was frequently chosen
oride horse at the county races, and some Of
| his victories are on record as being remarkable.
| 1t must, however. not be thought that he grew
up in ignorance. His mother taught him to
read and write, and at the village school he
| learned probably aS much aS his teacher knew.
u : retof'c', lnat III ms carry Gays ne was
| rGS',r a',ehoi'l' al tle Meihoii>t hufeh aliI
also that he was rare good dancer and could
| >'ial" ,hc huue M " ''h song ehg'i. iils l'lhcr
sem nun Ill lotV 10 >hlioh o'le%e' nut ne re-
manned there only few months.
OFF 10 THE MENICAN WAR.
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When there was ~h,inu f." do so hcinl, unaLIe
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decided 10 oeco'lie a 'awNer, reaolhG ms >,ack-
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HE SHOULDERS IllE MtSkEr.
The echo of the gun that fired the first shot
upon Fort Sumter aroused all the PATRIOTISM in
| Loyan'S breast, Ills partisa,ship vanished as
| if by ma"ie. lie jojurI Massachusetts, reui-
| ment rs private. and, shouIderine a lnl,skct.
took his place i'll the ranks. lie was in the
a a.. " ~, I ~, " ~ ~ ci'ioi ''lc
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Sui'u no.>e' Us 'aptols IltahihS ny LhS'H,!' ~
"ii u i'o Nv. 'I'l'iit" WIN t'ie ieiii@'''i; @ ~
n'i,. nc mas plo"Eht before Gener;l n1ehker
alii % ,,,lelioS,,eu. re ,lerl.reo himself mon
| ,o.".i'.,i' "'' i''t l"i1o..th Wy !'iie ~ ~
~ .oip.'H "nu o'n.tl:. ~ co,f>e 's
was SOM ~ '',.o >lIo'S oi '.tll SUSPICIOUS ior
l;osn ''lu nol u,>''osc thH iac' tll't lie was Il
,ohSIessiliah' ne was ordered back 70 the
s"aIu House; oll 'eiN ~ heanluaIterS ne was
IeeoSliHeo ny ;'no'her heilncf ol congress,
| VINO iappched 10 DC iieIe' VINO soon >atisneo
ms captors aho ''ener;i' hlehker lhat they had
ior prisoner '"hh y. Logan VI. =.
HOW HE GAVE GRANT A START
Then came. his res,n,ton from, ronurcss
| He wrnt ia Snr;nytii.II tn b.in +, nrsan;zn
troons While thcr,. IN inridrnt h,nnnmnI
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